NOVA — S43E02 — Arctic Ghost Ship

00:00:05 NARRATOR: It's the most ambitious expedition of its day

00:02:53 the ice is closing in

00:04:48 And so the idea was to find

00:06:46 He and his crew of 128 men

00:09:09 has been obsessed with the mystery for decades

00:10:47 the team is desperate for a breakthrough

00:12:49 in just an hour

00:15:09 And in 1850, near the entrance to the Northwest Passage,

00:17:36 Innovations designed to protect the men

00:19:24 It's hard to predict

00:22:04 that must have filled the surviving men with despair

00:24:27 NARRATOR: Mother Nature had dealt a cruel blow

00:26:45 there is a large opening

00:29:36 by American explorer Charles Francis Hall

00:32:00 This is The Times, October the 23rd,

00:34:20 clearly identifiable as a mark that was not made by an animal

00:36:32 well south of King William Island

00:38:55 We didn't know what it was

00:40:55 No doubt what it was

00:42:58 some of whom have spent, you know,

00:45:18 to get their first look inside the ship

00:47:38 Carefully comparing the sonar image with the plans,

00:49:48 through the maze of reefs and shoals

00:52:08 of Franklin's lost expedition